The Brookhaven leader., 1887-06-16

A Lab named nentz died from tetanus at
Grand Crossing, near Chicago, recently.
Some two weeks ago he ran an old nail in
his foot and ockjaw set in. Tho lads teeth
were closed so tightly that he literally
starved to death.
DISPATCHES from Rangoon and Mandalay
report distressing scarcity of food in Up
per Burmah, owing to the total failure Of
the rice and other crops Relief was being
sent
HENRY Il, CLIFFORD has succeeded with
the first mineral and land concession ever
made by the Mexican Government, The
tract embraces 6O, 900, ,OOO acres in the States
of Durango, Chihuahua and Sinaloa on the
Sierra Madres, and was secured under very
favorable terms.
THE Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road
has sold to David Sinton and Thomas J.
Emery it's common stock of the Dayton q
Michigan road, of which it held the control
ing interest The price was sl,OO0,0OO. The
Dayton a. Michigan is 14l miles long, run
ming from Dayton to Toledo, o. 1t is leased
in perpetuity to the Cincinnati, Hamilton q
Dayton.
TIE Washington Critic says: ''The al
legged American officer who committed sui
eide last week at Monte Carlo, is supposed
by many officers to be Lieutenant John J.
Shaw, lately of the Sixth infantry, who was
dropped from the roll Of the army May g
for desertion.n
A CRoToN, D. T., special of the 9th says:
"An artesian well broke out last night and
IS now flowing quite a stream. The same
causes which made the outbreak, opened a
seam or crack in the earth. The crack in
the earth runs under the Episcopal Church
and may cause considerable damage"
A GASOLINE tank exploded at Chatta-
| nooga, Tenn, on the 9th. One man was
killed, another fatally wounded and several
others seriously injured.
BETWEEN 600 and 200 carpenters of
Toronto, Ont, have struck for an advance.
THE mayor and other prominent officials
of San Antonio, Tex, were arrested re-
Gently on warrants charging them with
breaking up prohibition meeting.
THE Western Union telegraph Office at
Pittsburgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently.
SEVERE shocks of earthquake occurred
recently in Turkestan. One town was al
most entirely destroyed. One hundred and
twenty persons were killed, and l25 in
jured. Among the latter is General Fride,
Governor of the province of Zmiretchinsk.
THREE hundred and fifty union bricklay
ers quit work, at st. Paul. Mimi, recently,
as an expression of sympathy with the
striking carpenters.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, of the New York Su-
preme Court, has given a decision in the
test cases of the hotel keepers, holding that
they could not sell liquor to their guests
with meals on Sunday.
A FAMINE is imminent in the city OF Me
shed and throughout the whole province of
Kharassan. The Russians are trying to
prevent the people from emigrating to the
Trans-Caspan Territories.
IT is reported in Bombay that several
regiments of Afghan troops, including two
from Herat, together with the officers, have
deserted, in response TO a proclamation of
the Ameer of Bokhara, inviting the enlist
ment of Afghans under Afghan cOmman-
ders.
BUSINESS failures during the seven days
ended June 9 numbered, for the United
States, 140; for Canada, 33; total, 173,
against $50 the previous week and 2OJ for
the corresponding week of last year.
LIABILITIES of T. c. Palmer a Co.,
printers materials, New Orleans, amount
to $50, 600 A compromise was effected Of
fifty cents on the dollar.
JUDGE GORDON, OF Philadelphia, has de-
liverod an opinion refusing the petition OF
John g. Sterrett for a mandamus to com
pei the Electric Reporting Company to re-
place a ticker in his bucket shop, on the
ground that it is gambling business and
in contravention of good morals
A SPECIAL from Winnipeg, Man,
says: The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church of Canada has passed :.
resolution congratulating the Provincial
Synod of the Church of England in Canada
or it's action looking TO the union of the va
rious Canada evangelical bodies